In the Shell of the Old

Jesse Walker | 2.12.2003 12:36 PM

We all know what Old Media looks like: It's CBS News, The Washington Post, and Time. We all know what New Media looks like: It's InstaPundit, Indymedia, and Slashdot. But if a government-financed ex-monopoly radio/TV network asks millions of people with cameraphones to submit their photographs to its website, what happens to all our tidy categories?

Books Editor Jesse Walker is the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.